Since I small I living with womenAnd all I could get from them is false childrenSome with blue eyes and some like ChineeAny kind of child my girl make, she stick meBut I waiting on her patientlyIs about ten months now she ent kiss meAnd you know the boldfaced woman does tell meAny kind of child that born in my house, I'm the Daddy.

Chorus:I'm so ashamed I don't tell nobody[Chinese children calling me Daddy]You know my mother does want to beat me when[Chinese children calling me Daddy]But look I black like jet and she just like Tar Baby... still[Chinese children calling me Daddy]Well is left, right, in front and behind me[Chinese children calling me Daddy.]

One day I told ImeldaI don't want to be no child ownerIf is anything, I must be the fatherAnd don't always use me as Zappa'Cause when you go romancing with Chong LeeThe results don't bring it back to meBecause I am too black and uglyTo have children with flat nose and their eyes are so chinkey.

Chorus:That's why I shame, I don't tell nobody[Chinese children calling me Daddy]You know my mother does want to beat me when[Chinese children calling me Daddy]For look I black like jet and she just like Tar Baby, still[Chinese children calling me Daddy]Well it is left, right, in front and behind me[Chinese children calling me Daddy.]

Well, I can't take no child with they eye so chinkeyMyself and my girl black, we ent no ChineeSo it is very plain that you can seeSome Chinese putting milk in the coffeeFor when I plant corn, I reaping tanniaWell not me , I done with ImeldaI know when a negro clash with a negroThey can't make no other kind a child but a Congo.

Chorus:That's why I shame, I don't tell nobody[Chinese children calling me Daddy]You know my mother does want to beat me when[Chinese children calling me Daddy]For look I black like jet and she just like Tar Baby, still[Chinese children calling me Daddy]Well it is left, right, in front and behind me[Chinese children calling me Daddy.]

Source:The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe, I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!..........................................................

A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Terror!

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creationBlessed be my beautiful peopleBlessed be the day of our awakeningBlessed is my countryBlessed are her patient hills.

Lord, Please walk beside me through this day. Clear the heavy air with the lightness of Your Presence. Guide my hands and steady my heart that I may give comfort when I cannot give hope, that I may give relief when I do not have a cure, and that I may radiate Your healing peace when the limits of science, time, and the human body overwhelm us all.Amen